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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (LifeSiteNews) – A county judge ruled in favor of election integrity efforts in Wisconsin and ordered the city clerk of Green Bay to allow poll watchers greater access to observe the return of absentee ballots.

The successful lawsuit came from the Republican National Committee (RNC), which has filed numerous election integrity suits this year in an effort to protect the ballot box and combat voter fraud.

Brown County Circuit Court Judge Marc Hammer ordered City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys to stop “preventing or restricting members of the public from observing the public aspects of the in-person absentee ballot and the elector’s depositing or returning of a completed absentee ballot into a ballot box during in person absentee balloting,” according to the ruling.

The original lawsuit accused Jeffreys of violating state law by restricting poll watcher access. “Since in-person absentee ballot voting commenced on October 25, 2022, Jeffreys has unnecessarily split the voting process into two different areas: part of the voting process takes place in her office, and part of the voting process takes place along a long stretch in a public hallway outside of her office,” the lawsuit alleged.

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The lawsuit continued:

Jeffreys has restricted observers to a small area of her office, where they can only observe electors coming into her office to check-in, register to vote, and obtain an in-person absentee ballot—but they are expressly prohibited from observing any aspect of the voting process that takes place in the public hallway including, but not limited to, the witness certification process and depositing the in-person absentee ballot in the ballot box.

The clerk “refused to allow Plaintiffs and other observers to observe the voting process in the hallway—despite the fact that the hallway is a public area and others, who are not present to observe, are free to traverse through the hallway while voting is taking place,” the lawsuit alleged.

Jeffreys said she will “comply with Hammer’s order” but “she has simultaneously defended her office’s practice of denying requests for greater GOP poll watcher access to the entire early voting process by claiming that doing so would have ‘likely’ led to ‘intrusions upon voters actively casting their ballots,'” The Federalist reported.

Wisconsin voters could play a role in determining the control of the U.S. Senate, as incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson faces off against leftist, defund the police activist Mandela Barnes.

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